Posted
by
samzenpus
on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @01:36PM
from the or-fido-gets-it dept.

The Swiss village of Reconvilier is serious about collecting pet taxes, dead serious. Officials recently said that dog owners who haven't paid their pet tax face having their dogs killed. Local official Pierre-Alain Nemitz says, "This isn't about a mass execution of dogs. It's meant to put pressure on people who don't cooperate." You don't want to know what happens when you don't pay an excise tax in Reconvilier!

its nice that the government does just about nothing for my dog, which is how i like it, but why the hell do i hav to pay them to keep there dirty nose out of my shit!

A large fraction of dog owners do not properly train their dogs, thus endless barking, thus endless disturbing the peace police calls. Also raw (animal) sewage getting washed into the storm sewers and into the river. Finally its a proxy for registering rabies vaccinations. Rather than dealing with multiple vets or multiple 3rd parties, you simply prove vaccination to the govt and they proxy that knowledge to the inevitable bite victims.

It is absolutely disgusting that a so called civilised western society can threaten to condem dogs for their irresponsible owners not paying taxes, these animals are intelligent loving creatures and shouldn't face this sort of action due to dumb human owners[url=http://www.4pawspetfood.co.uk].[/url]